Word: stalinistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Hungary. The West had come to accept the "new maturity" of Russia's leaders. The relative liberalization of Soviet society and the increasing autonomy of Moscow's erstwhile satellites in Eastern Europe had also been taken for granted as an irreversible reaction to the harsh rigidities of the Stalinist past. The softening of Communism ("They are getting more like us, and we are getting more like them") had become one of the dubiously hopeful cliches of the day. In one brutal night's work, Moscow undercut, if it did not erase, all such assumptions. For all the changes...
...JOURNAL. "Never a Backward Step." Documentary on Lord Thomson, whose press empire comprises 149 papers in Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. Thomson discusses the press with Media Medium Marshall McLuhan and conducts an interview with Stalinist Antonin Novotny while he was President of Czechoslovakia...
...removal was a victory not only for the Russians but also for the conservatives in Prague whom Moscow would like to see unseat Dubček. For Prchlik was the general who had prevented a January coup by army units loyal to ex-party Boss Antonin Novotný, the Stalinist that Dubček bounced from office...
...Hungary's uprising in 1956, but Tito has been followed in this decade by the puritanical Chinese and their sympathizers in Albania, then by Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who wanted to pursue a freer foreign policy. Thus Russia now finds itself caught in the middle, between the Stalinist reaction of China on one side and the liberal yearnings of Czechoslovakia on the other...
...more Czechoslovaks signed up. The document is designed to build up sentiment for a purge of hard-liners at a special party Congress to be held on Sept. 9, when Dubček's reformers hope to sack most of the remaining followers of deposed, pro-Stalinist President Antonin Novotn...